Jump to content
Banner by ~ Kyoshi Frost Wolf
Guidelines

Equus

User
 View Profile  See their content

  • Posts

    140

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Equus

  1. Equus
    The most inspiring thing for me is that life has no set purpose. This sounds awful, but that simply means you get to decide what to with it, and the possibilities are endless. It would be so restricting if there were but a singular purpose for living; instead, there are many options.
  2. Equus
    I do many of the more normal things that can be done in one's spare time, but perhaps the most unusual on-and-off hobby would be that I use Google Earth to scout around for long-forgotten often abandoned old and historic bridges not already listed on a bridge-documenting website I contribute to, and eventually travel to and photo-document them. Transportation heritage is interesting and documenting the aesthetically and technologically interesting bridges out there (truss bridges in particular) before they collapse or are replaced by a dreadfully and disgustingly hideous, yet begrudgingly functional, concrete slab. We call those UCEB... ugly concrete eyesore bridges. Safe for heavy/wide loads and functional for modern traffic, but forever lacking in any historical or aesthetic value whatsoever.
  3. Equus
    All my hopes and dreams for life died long ago, so I take things day by day and see what opportunities lie ahead and which advantages open up for me. It's an interesting thing, just going with the flow; I once tried to plan out every minutiae of every day that lie ahead. I have no idea where I will be at 37; probably living at home or grandparent's old house, hopefully with my current significant other, and hopefully with some clear plan for the future by that point.
  4. Equus
    With my crippling social anxiety and extreme introverted tendencies, I honestly can say I avoid parties. People tend to know this and not invite me. I am okay with both party rooms at conventions and hosting my own events/parties, however. Just... not parties at someone else's house or non-convention social places. Even then I'd prefer to be alone reading somewhere. The stress is just too much
  5. Equus
    Reading, mostly. Or writing, or art, which I should do much more often.
  6. Equus
    Bridgehunter, Metal Archives, Wikipedia, Twitter... more than a few I usually have open on various tabs.
  7. Equus
    Scattered showers, and then a couple mornings below freezing expected once more! Oh joy! Most plants have already began to leaf out or flower thanks to a very mild couple of weeks, so expecting a significant foliage die-off, as happens every year. With winters becoming warmer but late freezes still being common, I wonder if plants will ever adapt and adjust to a late killing freeze after major winter warmth. Time shall tell I suppose...
  8. Equus
    I prefer mine as long as possible, as inconvenient as it may be to basic functioning. I do not like any too-short haircut, but unfortunately, as I age, it is beginning to thin rapidly thanks to genetics. I would prefer shaving it completely off than going back to short hair, so will have to do that at some point.
  9. Equus
    SO MUCH ITCHY, AAAAAAAA As often as I can honestly, my facial hair grows faster than I can keep up with.
  10. Equus
    Nope, nope, nope. I actually go out of my way to be myself and not conform to the expectations and stereotypes people may try to project upon me. There is some slight degree of care one must show to how others may perceive them, but only to the level that is required to function in society; not enough to make you have to change who you are in any way.
  11. Equus
    12:32 AM. Most people think Alabama is in the Eastern time zone... but it's in Central, for whatever reason. I have never understood why.
  12. Equus
    Should probably cycle it out eventually, but it's a gift my GF did for me a couple years back based on the disorganized plush pile that takes up a quarter of my bed, it is calming and I love traditional art ;w;
  13. Equus
    Lemme think... Atlanta, San Francisco, Birmingham (AL, home airport) Denver, SeaTac, Houston, both major Dallas airports, Huntsville, Memphis, Nashville, Chicago (ORD), Vancouver, Newark, Las Vegas, New Orleans, and Los Angeles (LAX) ... literally all of them in order to travel to pony cons. Denver and Vancouver are quite nice, SFO is pretty nice as well. Las Vegas and LAX are probably my least favorite thus far. Huntsville and Birmingham locally are surprisingly nice, especially Huntsville, though it's ungodly levels of expensive. Atlanta is alright but I hate actually getting to it. I usually fly out of Memphis and Nashville for cost reasons though; neither are worth writing home about but they get the job done I guess.
  14. Equus
    I have no idea where most of the ones I had as a kid went... but since then, probably the Rain plush from Spirit:SotC I've had since I was 14, though recently, I'd have to go with the giant Fluttershy I bought last April. Was a dream come true and I can die happy now. I have way too many plushies and I need to slow down. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaáaaa
  15. Equus
    Had a flip phone then a Pantech phone that slid to access the keyboard, whatever that was; worked well for a while... as much as I love technology I resisted getting a smart phone for some stupid reason until I got the Galaxy S3, then the S6 as soon as it came out. Don't plan on ever paying new phone prices ever again so I held on to that til recently when it stopped working properly, and switched to a Note 4, as my significant other and her family all still use them and I'm not going to pay exorbitant prices for something new. I like being able to add memory via microSD and being able to replace a faulty battery myself, and I don't see myself getting a newer phone that won't let me do that again anytime soon. That remains my only real complaint about the S6. I like my storage space >:C
  16. Equus
    WEST COAST. If I could ever dream to afford it. Not going to happen. Out of the country though... Canada, southern Argentina, whatever European countries I would actually be able to get into, pretty much anywhere reasonably temperate and preferably somewhere with good communication and transportation access yet quiet and away from conflict. New Zealand sounds phenomenal but I hear the cost of living there has skyrocketed. An isolated south Atlantic island or two sounds great, but communications and travel access would be really bad I'd assume. Would be up for a lot of places... I'd love to see the world. Someone mentioned the Smokies area in TN... that'd definitely be my pick if I had to stay within 10 hours of home. I love that area even though it's still in the super conservative part of the country. Wears Valley or Townsend would be my pick, slightly quieter but beautiful and still close to the activities in Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg/Sevierville and very close to GSMNP. Not a place with cheap land and housing anymore though. Huntsville is the only place I would actually want to be in my own state. The rest of it while beautiful in places is pretty terrible in every other aspect.
  17. Equus
    Honestly I worry if I try to make a career out of something I love, and am thus forced to do it perhaps more than I want in order to make money, I would find myself hating something I once liked... and I wonder if I should just leave the things I love as a hobby at my own pace, and try to find a job I can tolerate. But if I could make good money off of something I love, honestly, it'd probably work out well. Too bad nothing I enjoy doing is a marketable job skill. But it'd be great to have a job I enjoyed, in general... I have no use for excess money, I have too much stuff as it is. As long as I have enough to travel occasionally and still pay bills on a small house or apartment I'd be set for life.
  18. Equus
    Learned a good bit of Spanish in high school, and plan eventually on finishing that endeavor. It's very handy to have as a second language in the southern US. If that goes well, I'd love to also learn German or French at some point. Maybe the South American dialect of Portuguese if I ever manage to visit South America.
  19. Equus
    I used to own horses. More like fat pasture ornaments, but horses nonetheless. Only rode occasionally, mostly when I volunteered at the local therapeutic riding center, but haven't in ages.
  20. Equus
    In Alabama it is ABSOLUTELY necessary in summer. The heat and humidity are unbearable without strong AC and a fan to keep the air circulating. Kinda wish I lived in a less unpleasant climate; I don't mind the cold as much as the heat.
  21. Equus
    Just going to be honest, from life experience... Cats > birds > fish > horses > every other animal besides the above and dogs > dogs Really like cats and have only met a couple of dogs ever that I could even reasonably tolerate at best lol. Not that there aren't great dogs out there - I am sure there certainly are, but they're certainly not for me.
  22. Equus
    Looking for an external hard drive cord... I SWEAR it was supposed to be in my laptop case, but I guess it wandered off at some point lol
  23. Equus
    Welp here comes the rain. Massive swath of precip moving in from Mississippi. Love listening to the rain but it does make any travel very iffy.
  24. Equus
    Didn't change it, but through the fandom met several people with similar taste and shared/explored deeper into the genres I already enjoyed. Also found myself enjoying stuff way outside my tastes when used in PMVs. I do enjoy some fanmade aside from anything electronic, though there are a few exceptions. As long as it's not dubstep or anything similar. Have no idea what electonic subgenres there are, am just not a big fan of anything made without actual physical instruments, unless with traditional song structures or particularly orchestral, or with really good vocals. I even found a little fanmade music in my preferred genre (ShinZM, SDreamExplorerS, Br0racle, some of Tarby and Cyril's stuff, PW, etc) that I've greatly enjoyed.
  25. Equus
    Under a flood watch with the potential of rain and storms for about the next five days starting in the morning, riiiiight after mornings are becoming above freezing again. WOO! In a drought after frigid dry weather, so really it's pretty good for soil moisture and reservoirs
×
×
  • Create New...